A collapse looked on the cards when the left-armer grabbed two scalps in the 26th over, leaving the visitors 4 for 51.

He later grabbed the key wicket of Dan Christian, trapping him lbw for 8, for South Australia to find itself 6 for 68.

"We've had a massive focus with our bowling group to bowl in partnerships so there's going to be days when players take a bag of wickets and there's going to be days when you bowl really well and don't take any," Faulkner said.

"I was just lucky that it was my turn today."

In a telling sign for the struggling Redbacks, it was left to the debuting Raphael to equal top score with skipper Johan Botha.

"He showed all of us how you can play on that wicket, that it is possible, but you just have to hang in there," Botha said.

Conditions did not help the visitors, who were sent in by Tigers skipper George Bailey, with the morning session lost to persistent drizzle and the temperature in Hobart hovering below 10 degrees Celcius.